Oct 17, 2006 | Essays
for the 2006 Boissevain-Morton history book The timing couldn’t have been better. Magdalene and I had just settled our family into the community after returning from 10 years with Mennonite Central Committee (8 in Africa and 2 in Saskatoon) when the Boissevain...
Sep 17, 2006 | Essays
(written in 2006 for the new Boissevain-Morton history book) Eighty years ago our grandparent’s Gerhard and Helena Neufeld stepped off the train at Whitewater. They arrived with fifteen family members including parents and siblings in the middle of winter (January 25,...
Jun 2, 2006 | Essays
A letter to Eli on his 13th birthday Do you remember the day we watched a tornado go past our place? You must have been about 8 when you and your family came to stay with us for a few months that spring. I believe my family was in school the day of the threatening...
Mar 17, 2006 | Essays
for the 2006 Boissevain-Morton history book Perhaps it was the poetry I read to her on the train travelling from Waterloo (where we were attending University) to Toronto (where I was catching a plane to go to South Africa) that convinced her on the benefits of...
Dec 17, 2004 | Essays
– Letter to the Editor of Farmer’s Independent Weekly – Dec. 04 Shayne Murphy, in your letter to the editor in the 02 Dec issue, you ask the question: “. . . what other alternatives (to GMO seed development) are being offered to satisfy the increased demand for...
Oct 17, 2004 | Essays
– for a Gala Supper cosponsored by Organic Food Council of MB and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra at Hotel Fort Garry, Fall ’04 Thank-you, for being part of a community that seeks to support local food and local music. I’ll begin with an assumption; in the...
